John and I just adopted a new big sister for Julia, her name is Pearl and she is a 5 year old yellow lab. She is very friendly, loves to play ball and carry a toy, and when you sit on the floor with her she thinks she is a lap dog. I don't think Julia has actually noticed yet that she has a new big sister, not even when Pearl gave her a big friendly lick on her hands and arm.
Julia has a lot of fun on her activity mat. Typically her favorite thing is to look at herself in the mirror, though on the video she only glances at herself briefly.
She still can't purposely grab at the toys, but she does swat at them and occasionally will then 'catch' them in her hand. This morning she made a big step, we think she figured out 'cause and effect'. While holding the dangling rings on her mat, she pulled hard on them which made another toy light up and play music. She stared at the light-up musical toy, but then it stopped and she pulled hard on the rings which made the toy light up and play music again. She did this 4 times in a row. Of course this made her parents very excited and we started out the day truly believing (or should I say knowing) that our daughter is a genius.
One event she doesn't sleep through is the nighttime, but we are very happy that for the past 2 weeks she has only been waking up once around 3am and then sleeps until 7am. Now that she's not waking up multiple times also means she graduated to sleeping in her crib in her own room.
The last few days have been very exciting for Julia. Last week Julia turned 3 months old, which I think means she is officially no longer a newborn and is now considered an infant. Here's Julia cheering "Hurray, go infants!"
She went to her Nana's in Boston to celebrate Easter and got to meet her cousin Sophia for the first time. Sophia was very interested in Julia, always wanting to know where the baby was, wanting to hold the baby, and playing with her dolls in Julia's bouncy seat.
